23
Jun
Year 6 helpers in our Year 1 PSHE session
In PHSE we had some Year 6 children help us to think about what we could do when we were younger....
Year 1
23
Jun
Young and adult animal matching game in Year 1
In PSHE we have been learning about how humans and other animals change as they grow. Some get taller, some change colour and some change shape completely! Here we played a matching game with young and fully developed animals....
16
Jun
Year 1 trip to the Queen’s Gallery
1H and 1T had their trip to the Queen's Gallery. We learnt about how people would pose for portraits and the clothes that they might wear in the past. We then drew some sketches of our own! We looked carefully at what we could see...
09
Jun
Creating self portraits using pop art in Year 2
In our art project, year 2 have been inspired by pop artists such as Andy Warhol to create our own self portraits. We created our outlines using our iPads and we coloured each image using a different medium that we had learnt about during year ...
09
Jun
Magical measuring in maths in Year 1
In Maths year 1 have been measuring and comparing mass. We used balance scales and non-standard units of measurement (lolly sticks, unifix cubes etc) to measure the mass of a toy car. We challenged ourselves to say a sentence about the mass of the toy...
26
May
Making a bean salad in our instructional writing topic in Year 1
In Writing, we have been practising the skill of Instruction writing using bossy verbs. Our focus text is Jack and the Beanstalk and this week we wrote instructions for how to make a bean salad. Naturally we started off by making a yummy bean salad...
19
May
Classifying leaves in Year 1
In Science we classified leaves. At first we did this in whichever way we chose. Some of us chose to classify as big or small others classified as dark or light green. After this Miss McConnell asked us to classify the leaves as either thick...
12
May
Exploring Florence Nightingale’s life in Year 1 History
In History, we learnt all about the fantastic life of Florence Nightingale. We talked about the problems she faced in her life and her quest to improve hospital care for all patients. In this lesson we wrote a letter to the people of Britain from...
12
May
Art and Science during Year 1’s visit to the Curve Garden
During our visit to the Curve Garden, we had a cross curricular Art and Science lesson. We had great fun creating clay presses and rubbings of Maple, Oak and London Plane leaves....
05
May
Celebrating the Coronation through role play in Year 1
In History we have been thinking about the major event which will be happening at the weekend; the Kings coronation! We role-played various parts of the coronation ceremony including the oath, the anointing and the investing. We then designed King Edmund's crowns of our own!...